Why are low effort liveries so popular in showcase?

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Something I've noticed a lot is that some of the liveries with hundreds or thousands of likes take no more effort than slapping a number plate on an otherwise standard car, case in point, of all the new BX liveries one of the most popular starts and finishes with a Japanese number plate, compared to various really cool heavily customised versions, what's the deal? Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?
 
A banana duct taped to the wall as art sold for 6.2 million dollars. I dunno, people are weird.



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The iconic 'duct-taped banana' was just auctioned: But why did it cost in million of dollars? - The Times of India

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km666
Something I've noticed a lot is that some of the liveries with hundreds or thousands of likes take no more effort than slapping a number plate on an otherwise standard car, case in point, of all the new BX liveries one of the most popular starts and finishes with a Japanese number plate, compared to various really cool heavily customised versions, what's the deal? Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?
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I think the majority of likes are given in the hope they'll be reciprocated. Why waste time finding good liveries if you're just trying to farm likes yourself?

At the end of the day though, it's not worth anything, so it doesn't really matter. If people have farmed thousands of likes for crap liveries, they're only fooling themselves, but at least they're happy. No harm done!
 
km666
Something I've noticed a lot is that some of the liveries with hundreds or thousands of likes take no more effort than slapping a number plate on an otherwise standard car, case in point, of all the new BX liveries one of the most popular starts and finishes with a Japanese number plate, compared to various really cool heavily customised versions, what's the deal? Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?
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The BX was just added to the game and it's reasonable to believe that the more simple styles were among the first to be created, which might explain why they got an unproportional amount of likes.
 
km666
Are people genuinely impressed by hitting "other" twice in the Livery Editor or does Showcase promote things in strange ways?
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It's not happened with the new cars yet so it's probably a different reason but if your work gets put into the 'recommended' section then the reacts shoot up. I've had it happen with a couple of pictures and the likes went to over 400 whereas usually I only get a few
I don't know if it's an AI that does this or if someone literally goes through every photo but it is a factor
 
It is pretty annoying, but i make liveries for me. If i get some likes cool, (getting some recognition is always nice) if i don't, not bothered.
But i get that some people find that annoying, that those wheels and paint liveries score so high.
 
p78
It is pretty annoying, but i make liveries for me. If i get some likes cool, (getting some recognition is always nice) if i don't, not bothered.
But i get that some people find that annoying, that those wheels and paint liveries score so high.
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Bit random, but the link in your sig to your livery page doesn't work for me unless I change the /be-nl/ part to another country.
 
It's quite simple, actually. The people who have big numbers on their content (photos/replays/styles/etc...) have spent time building up a large group of followers. Whether that's through social media (usually the case) or in game farming (posting on MANY others content asking for views/likes) or both. Now, you may randomly get one of your uploads a ton of views/likes as it trends for whatever reason. I myself have had 1 or two in the 600 - 1000 likes category, but the majority of mine get between 1 - 6 (I have 71 current followers). So, the key is putting in the work to build up enough of a following that most of what you release gets enough views to get the corresponding likes.
 
ShonnDaylee
So, the key is putting in the work to build up enough of a following that most of what you release gets enough views to get the corresponding likes.
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It still doesn't explain why people like something that took two minutes to make, often with noticably low quality or no taste whatsoever, in the first place. Then again I have Facebook friends who follow absolutely everything they come across and click the like button on similarly everything that gets posted. Must be a similar case here.
 
Greycap
It still doesn't explain why people like something that took two minutes to make, often with noticably low quality or no taste whatsoever, in the first place. Then again I have Facebook friends who follow absolutely everything they come across and click the like button on similarly everything that gets posted. Must be a similar case here.
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It actually does. Many followers will give a like to any release from said content creator, both as a show of support, and to potentially farm more likes.
 

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